You can imagine his surprise when she got up and started to him. She’s joking right? He was joking, just playing around… yet seeing Austin in her house made him feel weird and that was a feeling he couldn’t shake. She was the same, yet different now. Now she really was a woman and as a man; he couldn’t help but look at her a little differently than he did when they were younger. Now… now was… different ---

Wait, what is she doing? As always, Gray wore his feelings on his sleeves and a look of shock moved across his face as she hobbled over and looked down at him. Her face was seriously and he found himself gulping in surprise but he didn’t move. Wait, wait what was going on?! What was she doing?? Now she’s leaning down, her face getting closer and closer, her voice as smooth as butter and he felt his cheeks start to go red. What was happening?! He swallowed hard again when she got closer and closer to him; he hung on her every word and waited for something expected-yet-unexpected to happen.

That was until his chair went tumbling to the ground and he let out a yelp of surprise. [i]THUD[/i], the young man hit the floor with a shocked look on his face. She tricked him! Obviously, the look on his face was one of pure surprise that she had tricked him into not paying attention to the point of knocking him out of the chair. Her teasing voice made him laugh hard, his laugh echoed through the little office as he looked up at her. “Oh really now…” He began as he reached up and grabbed her by the hand. 

Instead of taking her help up he pulled her down to him and rolled over, pinning her under him with his hands gently holding her wrists next to her head. “Tell me later? You know I hate waiting…” A smirk moved across his face as he leaned down to her ear. “Though I have news for you…” Once to her ear he gently whispered, “You’re proving the doctors wrong, you just walked without the crutches.” With that he pulled back and grinned down at her. “That’s the Monica I know. Nothing can keep you down, no crutches, no injuries. And now you have me back to help you through. Next time I’ll have to get further away and make you move further.” There was a small bit of silence between the two of them as he stared down at her with a gentle, almost proud smile on his face to know that she walked, she actually walked.

The moment was, of course, interrupted by a knock on the door. “Gray, I have a question for you.” The voice of a young man echoed through the closed door. 

A small, almost disappointed sigh left Gray as he gently released her wrists and climbed off her, only to reach down and help her to her feet. “Feel free to hang out in here, I’ll be right back.” With that he left her in the office, pictures and photos up on his family, friends, coworkers and the sort including the professional photo they had done at prom which seemed oddly placed near his computer as if it was important to him for some reason.